Lori asks what are people supposed to live on?
Transcript
All throughout work there were times where I’d be at work and I would be exhausted and my head would be falling and I’d be like this isn’t safe but I need money. And that’s another thing; money when it comes to people that have heart failure or cardiac disease you know, if you don’t have benefits or CPP then basically, how do you survive? How do you live? And I’m sorry, even right now CPP disability, it doesn’t pay you enough to live. Like thank goodness I have my husband, but you know for those people that are on their own or those people that have lower incomes, what are they supposed to – what are they supposed to do?
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